One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

[Quotable:] The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. ... Field of Dreams

The simple beauty of August's words struck me profoundly. The lines just seemed to have a life of their own leading me along as I read it.

Tears are words the heart can't express

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl Jones.